win 8 regular maintainence defrags ssds?

[Mr_AliMaMa]

Search this on the net and you can find many articles that say win 8 has regular maintainence feature and it defrags hdds and as you know ssds don't need to be defragged but win 8 does this which is odd since win 7 doesn't defrag ssds so win 8 shouldn't do so. Search this on the net and you will find many sites talking about this.


Anyway i have disabled idle and regular maintainence. Did any of you know about this?

 

[Kiwi8]

Not sure about that.

Btw, if regular maintenance is disabled, Auto Updates will not work liao.

 

[jtjt00]

This is further research and reading.........

 

[Mr_AliMaMa]

Not sure about that.

Btw, if regular maintenance is disabled, Auto Updates will not work liao.

I didn't know this sia but you search on the net. I turned on optimize for my lappy and it took a damn long time to complete so i went to google then i saw one link on youtube that taught you how to turn it off and the person mentioned how it defrags hdds but ssds don't need to be defragged and win 8 should know that automatically. Still cannot explain why my lappy took so long to optimize must be defragging and it has an ssd.

I realized my desktop ssd has always been maintained too cos i didn't know about this so never turned it off yet when i manually started it it just trimmed the ssd not defrag it.

 

[jtjt00]

I try it out and found it is actually trimming on SSD.
So no worry wearing out your expensive SSDs.

 

[Mr_AliMaMa]

ok it seems that win 8 doesn't defrag the ssd at least it seems to recognize what to do with different types of hdds

One of the users mentioned his lappy slowed to a crawl when it was running and he's using an ssd.

ssd - What does "Optimize Drives" do in Windows 8? - Super User

How to Optimize Hard Drive to Speed up Windows 8 | Optimize Windows 8

 

[E_T]

You should never defrag modern SSD unless the defrag software has a special SSD mode which clears contiguous free space, which does help big write operations or TRIM operations. An example is PerfectDisk, which I'm using to maintain my almost full SSD.

By default, Windows 8 defrag will run to perform outstanding TRIM operations if you "Turn off Windows write-cache buffer flushing..." in the SSD cache policy.